Browsing Archive: June, 2011

Concerning "The Dome"

Posted by Patricia Callaway on Wednesday, June 22, 2011, In : Learning to Sing 

Back in the 1980’s when I first heard Richard Miller speak, he was talking about the misconceptions so many people had about vocal function that were caused by the figurative language that many teachers used when talking about the voice.  Mr. Miller compared the common terminology to the anatomical reality with a great deal of humor, and those of us listening to him laughed until we cried.  Those lectures became a series of articles in the 1994 volume of the Journal of Singing.


At that tim...


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Last Night at the Symphony

Posted by Patricia Callaway on Sunday, June 5, 2011, In : Hearing Music 

Such an amazing thing happened at the Atlanta Symphony concert last night!  Actually several amazing things happened.  First of all the whole concert was music written within the last 75 years, the first half and part of the second half of the program was music written since 1987, and three of those pieces were written this year.  Two of them were two of the fanfares that the ASO has commissioned to celebrate Robert Spano’s 10th anniversary with the Orchestra.  One was Tenfold by Jennifer H...


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How I Learned to Sing

Posted by Patricia Callaway on Saturday, June 4, 2011, In : Learning to Sing 

I was such an eager beaver.  When I began voice lessons, I was the type that would be assigned a song and who then would find the book that the song came in, learn that song, go through the rest of the book, and come back the next week with four more songs I wanted to learn.  I had come to college to major in history, go the Library School, and become a librarian.  In high school I had been a very good student, and my activities were the chorus and the library club; you’ve got it:  total ne...


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